#MondaysMoments
June 13 2016
This Sunday is Father’s Day, a day that can hold both light and dark emotions. If you’ve lost your father, how do you take care of yourself and remember your dad at the same time? You c...
Monday, June 13, 2016
June 6 2016
A grief reaction is loneliness. How do you face summer a time for fun, vacations and getaways as you did in the past? This month we’ll talk about ways to take care of yourself after a l...
Monday, June 6, 2016
May 30 2016
Today is Memorial Day. I encourage you take time to remember those who lost their lives while serving in the armed forces. I also encourage you to remember other loved ones who have die...
Monday, May 30, 2016
May 23 2016
I believe that in most cases, just as our bodies know how to heal from a physical injury, they also know how to heal from a loss. The hard part is allowing ourselves to experience the grief a...
Monday, May 23, 2016
May 16 2016
Years ago at a grief presentation a woman shared a story of her family mourning a family tragedy. As we used to in years past, they hung dark fabric on their front porch or doors to let other...
Monday, May 16, 2016
May 9 2016
How often do you hear people use the word mourning these days? In his book, Immortality, Milan Kundera writes that backroads disappeared from our souls before they disappeared from the landsc...
Monday, May 9, 2016
May 1 2016
This month our theme is when you grieve, will you mourn? Did you know that grieving and mourning are two different things? Grief is the natural reaction to loss and involves what you ex...
Monday, May 2, 2016
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December 11 2023
I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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